Ribbon Music is pleased to announce the return of Baltimore’s Lower Dens with their third album, 'Escape from Evil'.

Lower Dens’ 2010 debut, 'Twin-Hand Movement', was a stunning evolution of guitar brilliance and murky emotiveness, while its 2012 follow-up, 'Nootropics' was a stark, textured paean to experimental bands of the krautrock era. 'Escape from Evil' marks a bold, monumental step forward for the band and the welcome manifestation of Jana Hunter as a singer we’ve never quite seen until now.

On 6 January 2014Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks released their new album, 'Wig Out At Jagbags' (Domino Records/ Domino Publishing). The album was produced by the band (Stephen Malkmus (Domino Publishing), Joanna Bolme, Jake Morris and Mike Clark) with Remko Schouten (the Dutch soundman who previously worked with Pavement) and was recorded in a studio in rural Ardennes with ‘a farmhouse vibe’. This will be Malkmus' 5th solo record following the break-up of his seminal American alt-rock band, Pavement, with which he recorded 'Brighten The Corners' (1997), 'Terror Twilight' (1999) and 'Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain' (2002); iconic records that spawned songs like...